Motivational Quotes

Freedom

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Freedom

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Durant, William J.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Buscaglia, Leo

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.

Burke, Edmund

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

Milton, John

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Braun, Wernher Von

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Hegel, Georg

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Malcolm X

11.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Lumsden, Marshall

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What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Macleish, Archibald

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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Madriaga, Salvador De

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Horace

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Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

Foster, Alan Dean

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Eliot, T. S.

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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

James, William

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Johnson, Lady Bird

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling, Rudyard

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The saving man becomes the free man.

Proverb, Chinese

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We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

It is quite possible for someone to choose incorrectly or to judge badly; but freedom must allow such mistakes.

Sang Kyu Shin

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

Madonna

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Aurobindo, Ghose

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Johnson, Samuel

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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz

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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Kennedy, John F.

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides

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Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Bevan, Aneurin

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.

Clegg, William C.

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Herbert, Frank

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Washington, George

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There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

Bellin, Gita

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster

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No one who lives in error is free.

Euripides

45.

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.

Sahib, The Siri Singh

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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Howard, Vernon

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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom.

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If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

Orr, Lord Boyd

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Sackville-West, Vita